I think this is something my friend Gemma will appreciate quite a lot!

Thanks for the link...

Ciao,

Ollie

Il 29/09/2018 00:04, ely.r@... ha scritto:

TravisLost this thread, but now found it, wanted to send this site to you and friend.Before Screen Readers, There had to be readers!The site below is an auditory history of early speech synthesizers. Each sample has a brief description of who where and when it was developed. Obviously screen readers needed intelligible voices to be of any worth. It is incredible to see how far the technology developed and what approaches were used along the way.Have fun!Rickhttp://www.festvox.org/history/klatt.htmln 9/28> And just to add to this, Window Bridge, was the first screen reader to

ever come out for windows. It came out around June of 1992. In thebeginning, their were about 10 windows products, which today, has been reduced today.The 10 windows products that you saw in the market were:Window BridgeSyntha Voice, released on June 1992. Now gone.Out Spoken for the mac and windows, Berkley systems, Alva accessgroup, released in 1994, now gone.

Dolphin Hal, now called SupernovaYourdolphin.com

Screen power, Telussensory, now gone.Artic Winvision, also gone.ASAW, also gone.JAWSwww.freedomscientific.comReleased January 20, 1995 First developed for DOS in 1989. Created byHenter-Joyce, which became Freedom Scientific in 2000, which becameVFO-group in 2015.Window-Eyes, now gone as of May 15, 2017.Release date: October 16, 1995, until May 15, 2017.Started out as Vocal-Eyes for DOS on February 15, 1990, Which was ayear before I was born on that same day. created by GW Micro.Vocal-Eyes was the top DOS screen reader. Then, in 1995, GW Microreleased Window-Eyes on Monday, October 16, 1995. On January 14, GWMicro and Microsoft released a version of Window-Eyes free withoffice. This version worked with Office2010 or up, and it came with two voices. Allowed you to purchaseDecTalk, Eloquence, Vocalizer, etc. Then, on May 1, GW Micro and AI Squared merged.Then, on June 14, AI was acquired by VFO.

The first screen reader I ever used was Window Bridge, which I reallyloved. Pity nobody took it up after David passed out so suddenly...

Actually, I tried. I bought the rights to the windowbridge sourcecode, but UPS lost the pc as it was being shipped from Canada to mehere in the U.S. His brother did send me cds with as much material ashe could find before sending the computer, but unfortunately, since hewasn't a programmer, he missed some vital libraries required for theproper compile of windowbridge, and since the ocmputer was lost, I wasnever able to do anything with it. Quite a shame really, since Ipersonally thought it was an excellent product, and was very happy tohave gotten the rights to it.

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